New blog on web development
I'm creating a number of subject-area blogs, the first one is on web development.
web
26 Jan 2012
I just released a new blog called What, Where, Why?, focused specifically on web development, the Internets, and other related geekery.
You might be starting to notice that Update isn't a regular conference. It kicks off with the Royal Banquet at a palace (for which there are still a few tickets you can buy to attend), continues in the premier concert hall in Brighton, and ends with the A Night at the Museum after-party at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. It is a tightly-scripted experience, with 18-minute inspirational talks punctuated by Geek Ninja Battles, tech beats, and live/interactive music and visualization acts. And, unlike other conferences, we're approaching sponsorship differently too.
Update 2011: call for sponsors
We're crafting a beautiful mobile conference this September in Brighton. Here's your chance to be part of the magic.
In the initial version of the upcoming Update conference web site, I'm optimizing for desktop, iPad, and iPhone-tier phones. This means that I have to create five different versions of nearly every image. One for the desktop size, one for 320px wide screens, one for 480px wide screens, and two for the Retina (@2X) resolutions. Of course, saving all those images by hand would suck. And it's not enough just to resize the images and export them for web since, when resized, I need to unsharp mask them to make sure they're not blurry.
I initially thought I could record an action to do this, but the Photoshop file I have for the graphics has dozens of layers. I thought I could use the Layer comps to files… script that ships with Photoshop but – while it let me export layer comps to files – it wouldn't let me add custom actions in the middle of the process (in this case to unsharp mask the image once it was resized).
Multi-resolution images, Photoshop, and ExtendScript
Using ExtendScript and Photoshop to make it easier to build multi-resolution images for web sites.
Friday night was Geek Ninja Battle Night, an evening of talks, drinks, and fun organized by Geek Ninja Factory.
Geek Ninja Battle Night
An evening of talks, drinks, and fun, with Sarah Parmenter, Andy Clarke, Remy Sharp, myself, and a little over sixty lovely audience-members.
Update: sorry everyone, the event sold out in under 24 hours but there is a waiting list you can sign up to in case anyone drops out. Thank-you all for your overwhelming interest and here's looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there in March!
READY? FIGHT! Don’t miss the first Geek Ninja Battle Night!
Andy Clarke and Remy Sharp square off against Sarah Parmenter and yours truly in a battle of wits as we explore Mobile: Web vs. Native.